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Assessment of speckle tracking strain predictive value for myocardial fibrosis in subjects with Chagas disease

BACKGROUND: One of the most challenging issues of chronic Chagas disease is to provide earlier detection of heart involvement. Two-dimensional speckle tracking (2-D ST) echocardiography, a new imaging modality with useful applications in several cardiac diseases, has been validated for subjects with...

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Autores principales: Macedo, Carolina Thé, Larocca, Ticiana Ferreira, Noya-Rabelo, Márcia, Correia, Luís Claudio Lemos, Moreira, Moisés Imbassahy Guimarães, Caldas, Alessandra Carvalho, Torreão, Jorge Andion, de Freitas Souza, Bruno Solano, dos Santos, Ricardo Ribeiro, Soares, Milena Botelho Pereira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5497266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28785684
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcha.2015.05.007